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Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

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Post by rhizome »

uranian wrote: post #46

I was interested, until I saw the way too minimalistic demo on the homepage. If you call it a DAW with VST support and so, than just a demo of a piano piece with a huge piano roll doesn't really impress. I don't want to be too negative as I really like the idea. But at first sight this is by far no match at all with the great DAW's out there. You can say they are bloated, but no one says you need to use all the featu…

I think they use the term "DAW" too much for something that doesn't necessarily satisfy on that level. Maybe they don't think "sequencer" is impressive enough?

Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

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Post by archagon »

After playing with it a little, a few suggestions:

1. Make it possible to (inertial) pan and pinch zoom when using a Mac trackpad. This would be significantly faster than using the lower navigator for Mac users. Also, I don't think it's a good idea to make the scroll wheel change the x-scale.

2. Add a shortcut for deleting notes when in "feather" mode — maybe middle-click? (I see right-click is reserved for changing layers.) This would make it possible to work on a piece of music without having to use the keyboard or move the mouse away from the canvas.

3. Is there a way to change the division of beats? IMO there should be a way to do this very quickly, so that I can switch between divisions of 4 and 3 for example.

Great work! Out of curiosity, how long have you been working on this project?

Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

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Post by tomduncalf »

RickS wrote: post #33
dominotw wrote: post #8

I would really like the equivalent of Unity in the DAW world. Let me script modulators/sound design while doing arrangement/mixing and stuff in UI.

max/msp might be of interest, then: https://cycling74.com/products/max/

Max for Live is probably particularly relevant here, as you get the full compositional power of Live, plus the flexibility of Max/MSP

Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

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Post by badosu »

paulgerhardt wrote: post #28
ssharp wrote: post #10

"Most of the DAW interfaces often seem overcomplicated, and they only tend to get more and more bloated over time." How much can you simplify the interface and still make it do everything producers want to do? Garageband simplified the interface quite a bit compared to Logic, but even that can get complicated and ultimately isn't as flexible as other DAWs. I've been a fairly loyal user of Sonar and FL Studio for over…

I think the analogy is "In the music world, we have the choice between the equivalent of XCode or Visual Studio to compose - here's Atom."

"There's vim as well: http://csound.github.io/"

Re: Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

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Post by prando »

Beautiful UI. Despite what others might comment about its utility and relevance, I see this as a very interesting project to learn audio processing & clean UI design. Please let us know your background. Are you an audio DSP engineer? Is there a list of features that you are planning to integrate?

Kudos!

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